Mar-Lu-Ridge Summer Camp and Education and Conference Center
Mar-Lu-Ridge Summer Camp and Education and Conference Center is an outdoor ministry site of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Jefferson, Maryland. Mar-Lu-Ridge, an abbreviation for either Martin Luther or Maryland Lutheran, sits atop a mountain in the Catoctin Mountain range. The camp is a year-round ministry location that was founded at a groundbreaking ceremony on December 31, 1958. The first year of summer camp was 1959, and camp continues to the present. This American Camping Association-accredited camp serves both the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod and the Delaware-Maryland Synod, as well people of all faiths and denominations. Mar-Lu-Ridge is also a year-round ministry site that is visited by hundreds of people on weekends and other retreat times.
